The journey from Kuala Lumpur to Penang went beyond expectations. We booked a bus ticket online and went to the bus terminal. The KL terminal is felt like an airport. You must check in yourself on time and if someone is late or missing, the name will be called out. We found our bus easily, …
We decided to go to Kuala Lumpur first and foremost because we found it to be one of the cheapest places to fly in Asia and where to fly to other countries nearby. Since the tickets were cheap for KL, we started to investigate what else would be done in Malaysia. Many backpackers do not …
Our next stop was Moalboal. This is a well-known area on the island of Cebu, where you can snorkel and see the great sardine run. The road to Moalboal went along the coast and was marvelous. The bus driver showed us that the small sharks swimming on the sea … our eye did not catch …
To get back to Cebu Island, we took a ferry from Bohol to Argao. We thought it wasn’t wise to take the ferry all the way back to Cebu city to drive 4 hours by bus to Oslob. However, from Argao to Oslobo was only a few hours by bus. Unfortunately, this plan didn’t work …
We decided for a long time whether to take a trip to the Philippines or not, which was a bit off from our trajectory. We were afraid that nature in the Philippines is quite similar to that in Indonesia. Finally, the decisive factor was that if we have come already so far from home, it …
From Indonesia, we flew to Singapore and we had 3 days before going to the Philippines. it seemed exactly right amount of time to discover that multicultural city-state. We landed in Singapore in the afternoon. Kaija had found a Couchsurfing place for us and our host, Nizar, came and meet us in the Airport. But …
Unfortunately, we were planning to spend only 4 days in Bali. Bali’s anti-advertising (tourist, messy, etc.) by many friends, unfortunately, brought it down to it. From that moment on, we realized that the tourist might not mean something which we do not like at all. It was also clear that people prefer very different things …
Kuta is located in the south of Lombok Island and is known for its good surf beaches. We could also instantly see that there are many surfers there. Local rental scooter even rent special racks for holding the surfboard. This time our accommodation place was more modest, but once again clean and decent. There was …
From Gili islands, we move forward to the island of Lombok. The first days we stopped in Senggigi town, on the west side of Lombok Island. We had a super good hotel, a large swimming pool, a hotel garden full of different flowers, and a room overlooking the sea. In the evenings we also had …
We landed at noon in Bali. We took a taxi from the airport and drove to our place of stay, which turned out to be a lovely little hostel in the middle of nowhere. We were literally in the middle of a slum. Fortunately, however, we found something to eat there (almost free because the …